Month: October 2016

Episode 81 – October 25, 2016

SharePoint/Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) October 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was included with the release and what else has been happening in the PnP world during the past month.

Using the Office Graph you can retrieve information and insights that help your users be more productive. To show you how to do this in SharePoint Framework client-side web parts, SharePoint Patterns and Practices published a number of sample web parts. Read this blog post to get more details.

Currently, there is no way how you automatically assign users or groups as site collection administrators in your tenant. And while you can manage the settings per site collection in the SharePoint Online Administration area of the Office 365 portal, doing so for dozens or hundreds of sites is not a productive use of time. Find the way how to automate those operations and save your time

Episode 80 – October 18, 2016

SharePoint/Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) October 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was included with the release and what else has been happening in the PnP world during the past month.

This post is a brief recap by Bill Baer of several new announcements about capabilities coming to on-premises SharePoint customers, as well links to additional sessions of interest related to SharePoint Server 2016, hybrid, and migration from Ignite.

Understanding how your users adopt and use Office 365 is critical for you as an Office 365 admin. It allows you to plan targeted user training and communication to increase usage and to get the most out of Office 365.

This PnP Webcast covers SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) Templates Gallery, which is an open source remote provisioning template gallery for PnP provisioning templates. PnP Templates Gallery can be used to consume and share PnP provisioning templates with SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online.

The Microsoft SharePoint Framework provides powerful capabilities to extend your sites through client side web parts. Learn to build new client side web parts for your existing and new team sites, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Project versioning as we used to know it was not a big challenge. Not as long as you only used Visual Studio. The thing is that assigning a proper version of your SharePoint Framework project is trickier than simply apply a single version to it.

Episode 79 – October 12, 2016

At Microsoft Ignite 2016, in Atlanta, Microsoft has announced the availability of the new "PnP Templates Gallery" portal, which is available here. The basic idea around this new portal, is to have a public and shared repository for PnP provisioning templates, which anybody can download and use for free.

Microsoft releases the ability to have offline sync of SharePoint document libraries. And at the same time they bring back the possibility to not sync all folders, but selectively sync folders on what you need.

Microsoft Team is happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. This release again contains few updates on the existing SharePoint CSOM assemblies and some maintenance changes. There’s quite a lot of new classes and APIs especially in the Project side.

In this webcast PnP team concentrated on covering how to perform typical CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations with different JavaScript framework with SharePoint Framework client-side web parts.

These posters describe the architectural models and deployment options for SharePoint, Exchange, Skype for Business, and Lync and provide design information for deploying SharePoint in Microsoft Azure.

This SharePoint PnP Customer Story is concentrated on covering how Experts Inside delivered a self-service site collection provisioning solution for Weleda AG, by using the PnP Partner Pack as a starting point for their delivery. Customer wanted to provide automated process for their employees to have branded collaboration sites and PnP Partner Pack starter kit provided excellent starting point for the Experts Inside for this customer case.

The 3D Carousel Web Part is a SharePoint client side web part built with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) in the preview version. This web part adds a 3D carousel animation with picture, title and link.

Recently there has been some helpful activity over on the Microsoft Script Center for Exchange and Office 365 administrators. Here are overview of 3 scripts: Install Exchange 2016 Pre-requisites.ps1 – makes it easier to install Exchange 2016 prerequisites; O365_Installs_Connections.ps1 – makes it easier to prepare machines from which you administer Office 365; O365_Logon Module – an easier way to log into Office 365 services using PowerShell.

The is a 3 different approaches that you may take for SharePoint farm aubit. In fact, often, Matthew McDerm ott use all three for different reasons. Three approaches to auditing your farm before you upgrade. Or anytime you need to know what going on with your farm or want to visually represent your farm to an audience who may need “reports” over raw data.

SharePoint is home to many of the critical documents, items, and sites for organizations of all sizes. Growing Microsoft Graph API set is designed to make working with data, hosted across Microsoft products, as easy as possible. In this light, it’s natural that combining these two capabilities together would create something amazing.

New SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online is available now. This release again contains few updates on the existing SharePoint CSOM assemblies and some maintenance changes.

Microsoft provided new information about how it will be integrating Office 365 Groups into its Yammer enterprise-focused social network. The Yammer Enterprise service tier will be going away on January 1, 2017. But Yammer itself will remain available, and there are many levels of integration with the Office 365 services.

Microsoft has announced a new version of the Office 365 App Launcher, which will provide improved discoverability to new and recently used apps, additional customization options and search across all the services and applications in the Microsoft Cloud.

Given the explosive growth in data production, IT is tasked with securing a volume of corporate data that is growing exponentially. To stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape, companies need the ability to analyze and learn from that data in order to identify, intercept and respond to threats. Office 365 provides unmatched security intelligence to help customers protect, detect and respond to threats.